Megatest

   (let* ((header (list "id" "hostname" "pid" "interface" "port" "pubport" "state" "run_id" "priority" "start_time"))
	  (selstr (string-intersperse header ","))
	  (res    '()))
    (sqlite3:for-each-row
     (lambda (a . b)
       (set! res (cons (apply vector a b) res)))
     mdb
     (conc "SELECT " selstr " FROM servers WHERE run_id=? AND state in ('available','running','dbprep') ORDER BY start_time DESC;")
     (conc "SELECT " selstr " FROM servers WHERE state in ('available','running','dbprep') ORDER BY start_time DESC;")
     run-id)
     )
    (vector header res)))

(define (tasks:get-server mdb run-id #!key (retries 10))
  (let ((res  #f)
	(best #f))
    (handle-exceptions
     exn

	     (delay-time 0))
      (if (and (not server-dat)
	       (< delay-time delay-max-tries))
	  (begin
	    (if (common:low-noise-print 60 "tasks:start-and-wait-for-server" run-id)
		(debug:print 0 *default-log-port* "Try starting server for run-id " run-id))
	    (thread-sleep! (/ (random 2000) 1000))
	    (server:kind-run run-id)
	    (server:kind-run *toppath*)
	    (thread-sleep! (min delay-time 1))
            (if (not (or (server:start-attempted? *toppath*)
                         (server:read-dotserver *toppath*))) ;; no point in trying
                (loop (tasks:get-server (db:delay-if-busy tdbdat) run-id)(+ delay-time 1))
                #f))
          #f)))